Uncle Merlin embroidered this cap and sent it to us from his shop north of Boston. He thinks he was being cute.
All the Giants fans in this house have been arguing over which one of us would be forced to wear it tonight. Fortunately, we’re having a guest who’s a 49ers fan and he’s still ticked off. So he might agree to put it on.
By the way, we’re fans. But we’re not FANS!
Now, this guy is a FAN!
And, no, that’s not a mistake in the story. The Giants and the Dodgers did play a game at the Polo Grounds on December 7, 1941. The Dodgers won 21 to 7 and didn’t hit a single home run.
Here in Connecticut some of us root for the "New England" Patriots, but others remember two things, one with animosity, one with fondness: (1) the Patriots and a certain felonious governor who will remain unnamed toyed with the state about the team moving here, and then pulled the plug; (2) we have an uncle who is as die-hard a Giants fan as they come, and so we will be rooting for them in his honor today. Go Giants!
Posted by: mac macgillicuddy | Sunday, February 05, 2012 at 12:36 PM
As a Bear fan, I don't have a dog in this hunt, but still love the memory of the comedy routine that started the career of Andy Griffith about a football game he watched and then commented on.
WHAT IT WAS, WAS FOOTBALL
Andy Griffith - 1954
Both bunchesful wanted that thing.
One bunch got it and it made the other bunch just as mad as they could be!
Friends, I seen that evenin' the awfulest fight that I ever have seen in all my life !!
They would run at one -another and kick one- another
and throw one another down and stomp on one another
and grind their feet in one another
and I don't know what-
all and just as fast as one of 'em would get hurt,
they'd take him off and run another one on !!
I don't know friends, to this day, what it was that they was a doin' down there, but I have studied about it.
I think it was that it's some kindly of a contest where they see which bunchful of them men can take that pumpkin and run from one end of that cow pasture to the other without gettin' knocked down or steppin' in somethin'.
Posted by: Earl Bockenfeld | Sunday, February 05, 2012 at 02:24 PM
I have friends in Conn. who will be rooting for the Giants. I am north of Boston in Patriots territory and will be rooting for the Pats. It's frankly not all that important to me, but I do hope the Pats win, if only so I am spared the wailing and gnashing of teeth that would follow a loss.
Posted by: Kevin Wolf | Sunday, February 05, 2012 at 04:31 PM